220 University Geological Survey of Kansas. 
Baxter Springs. 
The Baxter chalybeate springs, in Cherokee county, on the St. 
Louis & San Francisco railroad, were for many years among 
the most noted of any in the state. The place is of great in- 
terest geologically on account of the fact that it is just in the 
edge of the Mississippian formation that extends from Missouri 
across the extreme southeastern corner of Kansas. The region 
is well watered by abundant springs, and drained by Spring 
river, that flows about eighteen miles through the state and 
thence southward into the territory. The city of Baxter Springs 
is six miles from the Missouri line and a mile and a half north 
of Indian Territory. On account of its peculiar situation, Bax- 
ter Springs has attained considerable commercial importance 
and carries on trade with the Indians in the vicinity. 
The springs were developed in 1883, but the hotel is of an 
earlier date, belonging to the time when the city was known 
only as an important trading point. The streams of this sec- 
tion of the state are very clear, and the banks are well wooded, 
so that, since the surface of the country is very much broken by 
hills and valleys, it presents a marked difference in appearance 
from most other parts of the state. On both sides of the small 
branch that flows easterly through the city, as many as thirty 
springs have been discovered, many of which have an abun- 
dant flow of clear, sparkling water. Within a few hundred 
yards no less than ten excellent springs are to be seen. 
A list of these springs, with the temperature as shown on 
September 4, 1898, is as follows: 
No. 1. West pavilion, Iron spring, 16° C. (60.8 F.) 
2. Hast pavilion, Medical spring, 17° C. (62.6° F.) 
3d. Spring in highway east of latter. 
4. Mann spring, on right bank of creek, 17° C. (62.6° F.) 
5. Dotyspring, nearresidenceof Mr. Doty, 19°C. (66.2°F.) 
6. Spring in pier of bridge. 
7. Spring in highway, north of No. 1. 
8. Spring in rock near residence of Mr. Newhouse, 19° C. 
(GOs2" 1.) 
9. Sulfur spring near the Scott property, 19°C. (66.2° F.) 
10. Spring beside bridge pier northwest of schoolhouse, 
920° C. (68°F.) 
